Netbooks may lack the drive space to run Windows software and the cost of Microsoft’s operating system could drive up the price making the small devices less attractive.

So far Twitter has been relatively spam-free. That could change soon, “thanks” to Tweet Tornado, a new app allowing people to create unlimited accounts and send identical updates to multiple accounts.

At 8 inches Sony’s Vaio P Series Lifestyle PC could be called a netbook. But Sony says it’s more than that. The reviewers at Wired.com disagree.

An internet-enabled cell phone, a mirror, a webcam, and a battery-powered projector were the start for this device that turns any surface into a video display. This article includes a 2 1/2 minute video showing the device in action.

Well, we’re getting there. Most of the big internal changes to the database have been implemented and we’re just going around and finding some of the remaining cross-references that didn’t show up during our initial scan. Some pages may not load properly or links may result in errors. We should have all that resolved within a few hours, since it looks like the tough part of the job actually worked pretty nicely.

Thanks for your patience. The net result, although you won’t see too many new features, is that our internal database structure will be more reliable and a serious failure point (old, legacy code) has been removed and replaced with a much more robust design.

Back to work…

We’re doing some very deep maintenance today on the ZATZ sites, upgrading a legacy system that’s been driving some of our sites for more than a decade and that has gotten extremely long in the tooth. Because we have to go in and touch every single page on every single site that we’ve ever published, there may be some intermittent performance hits throughout the day. You may also notice instances where the page numbers or next/prev buttons show up twice. That’ll be resolved as we traverse the pages thoughout the day.

Thanks for your patience. Hopefully, everything will be running smoothly within a few hours.

PreDevCamp is an event centered around software development for the WebOS platform on Palm’s new Pre smartphone. In anticipation of the Pre’s release PreDevCamps are being scheduled in over 60 cities around the world.

It’s a phone on one side, a camera on the other. The Samsung Memoir, expected out February 25, attempts to blend two devices into one fully-loaded gadget.

No, it isn’t old age. But like the spammers, those who deliver pop-ups to your browser are finding ways to get around the blockers, like DHTML.

David is back on CNN.com today with Dropdead date for DTV delayed.

Yesterday, Congress showed that it’s quite capable of having its cake and the glass half-empty, too. The mixed metaphor that is our United States House of Representatives approved the delay of the DTV transition to June, paving the way for President Obama to sign it into law. Sort of.